''Phyllothallia'' is a small
genus
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of
liverworts
The Marchantiophyta () are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of ge ...
of the
Southern Hemisphere. It is classified in the
order
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* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
Pallaviciniales
Pallaviciniales is an order of liverworts.
Taxonomy
* Pallaviciniineae Schuster 1984
** Hymenophytaceae Schuster 1963
*** ''Hymenophyton'' Dumortier 1835 Umbraculum'' Gottsche 1861 non Schumacher 1817 non Kuntze 1891]
** Moerckiaceae Stotler ...
and is the only member of the
Family (biology), family Phyllothalliaceae within that order. Unlike most members of the Metzgeriales, ''Phyllothallia'' has a leafy appearance.
The genus has a disjunct distribution, with the species ''
Phyllothallia nivicola'' found in
New Zealand
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while the other species in the genus, ''
Phyllothallia fuegiana'', occurs in
Tierra del Fuego
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.
References
yo mama plant
Pallaviciniales
Liverwort genera
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